Cities: Skylines Brandenburg Gate (How To Unlock + Building Details)

Brandenburg Gate
DLC	Deluxe Upgrade Pack (or Cities: Skylines Deluxe Edition)
Building Type	Unique Building
Level/Category	Landmarks
Build Cost	₡195,000
Upkeep Cost	₡1,600/week
Milestone Required	Worthy Village
Entertainment Value	100
Noise Pollution	50
Visitor Capacity	300

To unlock the Brandenburg Gate unique building, you’ll need to do 2 things:

Have 10,000 full lifespans lived in the game
And reach the Worthy Village milestone (240-950 population, depending on the map)

Once these requirements are met, you’ll be able to build the Brandenburg Gate from the Landmarks tab of the Unique Buildings menu for ₡195,000.

Until then, hovering over its silhouette in the menu will show you your progress towards unlocking it.

Although the Worthy Village milestone unlocks the Landmark Unique Buildings tab, you will be much farther in the game by the time you unlock this building.

Note: You’ll need to have 10,000 citizens to have been born in your city and then grown old and died there. Each citizen has a “lifespan” of approximately 6 in-game years.

Tip #1: Avoid Getting Homes Abandoned

Since you want as many citizens as possible to live their whole lives in your city, you want to avoid the conditions that may cause them to pack up and leave.

Be attentive to any citizen complaints, and try to resolve their issues as quickly as possible.

These can include:

Lack of power or water
Contaminated water supply
Ground and noise pollution
Garbage piling up (inadequate garbage collection)
Dead persons not picked up in a timely manner
High crime rate
Taxes too high
Land value too low*

*This can happen if a residence has upgraded to a higher level, but for some reason the land value in the neighborhood drops (e.g., if a noisy or polluting building is built nearby) and is now lower than what that level needs.

This building was abandoned because a dead person was not collected in a timely manner.

Tip #2: Keep Your Citizens Healthy

Citizens dying prematurely because of illness won’t add to your progress, and will in fact slow you down.

You want your citizens to stay as healthy as possible and die of old age.

Here are a few ways to do that:

Make sure their water is clean (keep any drain pipes downstream of water intakes, and any water towers away from polluted soil)
Keep ground and noise pollution away from homes
Provide sufficient healthcare access (clinics and hospitals) for any citizens who do get sick

There are also certain buildings from DLCs that provide a health bonus to citizens within their radius.

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Building	Build Cost	Unlocked At	DLC Required	Effect
Child Health Center	18,000	Boom Town	none	Health bonus to children and teens in the area; boosts birth rate
Community Pool	75,000	Busy Town	Green Cities	Health bonus to area
Eldercare	22,000	Boom Town	none	Health bonus to seniors in the area
Sauna	25,000	Big Town	Snowfall	Health and happiness bonus to area
Sports Hall and Gymnasium	120,000	Tiny Town	Green Cities	Health bonus to area
Yoga Garden	90,000	Small City	Green Cities	Health bonus to area

Citizens here are getting ill and dying because of contaminated water.

Tip #3: Use the Child Health Center to Boost Birth Rate

Apart from the health bonus to children and teens in the neighborhood around it, the Child Health Center also provides a boost to birth rate within its radius.

Since you’ll want as many babies being born in your city as possible for this unlock, it won’t hurt to add a few child health centers near your residential zones.

The Child Health Center

Tip #4: Don’t Enable Random Disasters (Natural Disasters DLC)

Of course, you also want to make sure your citizens aren’t dying prematurely from disasters!

If you’re playing with the Natural Disasters DLC, make sure random disasters are turned off.

Also, be sure to have sufficient fire safety coverage, to prevent the loss of homes to fire.

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